Flying Scotsman at Kingswear

This is a sight that could not have been seen in steam days on Britain’s railways, an Eastern Region Gresley A1 Pacific on the hallowed metals of the Western Region-—-——-unthinkable, but this is 1994 when the World’s most famous locomotive “Flying Scotsman” paid a visit to the privately preserved Paignton-Kingswear branch line.

Nevertheless it makes a fine sight in the later British Railways Brunswick Green livery and fitted with German-type smoke deflectors, currently it sports LNER Apple Green and the smoke deflectors have been removed.

In the background across the River Dart lies Dartmouth, the town with a railway station but no trains, but that’s another story.

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